How can you say 3 meltdowns and say the releases are 1/5 of Chernobyl ? Each reactor in Japan was pure uranium and pure plutonium while Chernobyl was mostly Graphite . Reactor 3 in Japan was Plutonium MOX fuel and the videos show it throwing the fuel pools with 4 decades of reactor cores and a running reactor core a Km into the air . The author should have to go to Fukushima and tell the victims the 30 million one tons bags of radiation do not count and see how that works out for them .
The nuclear disaster lasted five days with three meltdowns, radioactive fallout and large-scale evacuations. The sequence of events still provides insights for the future.